"I'm proud to say that I toured the entire Rebel Yell tour which was ten months long, with one of GR-707 and the floor unit. I still have it, and I have it because it is a bit of history to me. There's not many instruments that I held on to that long but that really meant something to me, to be the first in the Unites States with that instrument and to maybe help promote guitar synthesizers. I've always been a big synth fan."

"And I’ve been involved in guitar synthesis for most of my guitar career. I had a GR-300, the GR-700, the GR-55, and it’s been fascinating to see how the technology has twisted and changed and become more acceptable."

In this interview with Boss, Andy Summers confirms usage of this guitar-synth. It reads, "I remember seeing a Police video where you were playing a Roland GR-700 guitar synth."
"I don’t remember which one was which. Was that the silver one?"
"Yes."
"Yeah, I used that one. I don’t have it anymore unfortunately. I think I did some stuff with Robert Fripp with it back when we did a couple of albums together."

"Do you recall which guitar synthesizer you used?
It was like a pretty big size. It had a big old huge connector. I just remembered: it was a Roland (GR-700)." [Steve Morse](http://www.bossus.com/community/boss_users_group/30071).

For "Easter Sunday, " which was recorded on Easter Sunday, 1983, in Toronto, Fripp improvised with a Roland GR-700 synthesizer, and soloed on top of that with a Takamine acoustic, followed by a Les Paul with a fuzz box played through a Fender Princeton amp.

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